doc/packaging.txt
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                Userland Consolidation Packaging Guidelines.

	Each component that integrates into the Userland consolidation must have at
least one package manifest that describes the content to be delivered.  In some
cases components *may* deliver through multiple packages.  Canonical component
package manifests must be placed in the component's build directory.  They also
must be named *.p5m.

    In order to understand what must go in the content of a package manifest,
it's useful to have an understanding of how a canonical manifest is transformed
into a final manifest used for package publication.  Manifest transformation
takes the following basic path:

    canonical manifest
    (.../{component}/{component}.p5m)
            |
            v
    mogrified manifest
    (.../{component}/{build-dir}/manifest-$(MACH)-{component}.mogrified)
            |
            v
    mangled manifest file contents
    (.../{component}/{build-dir}/manifest-$(ARCH)-{component}.mangled)
            |
            v
    dependencies generated
    (.../{component}/{build-dir}/manifest-$(MACH)-{component}.depend)
            |
            v
    dependencies resolved
    (.../{component}/{build-dir}/manifest-$(MACH)-{component}.depend.res)
            |
            v
    manifest validation
    (.../{component}/{build-dir}/.linted-$(MACH))
            |
            v
    publication manifest
    (.../{component}/{build-dir}/manifest-$(MACH)-{component}.published)
            |
            v
    publication


Canonical Manifest
    The canonical manifest contains actions that can't otherwise be generated
    automatically from the data encapsulated in the component Makefile, gate
    transformations, build tree, and packaging tools.  This includes actions
    for license information, some path related attributes, legacy actions, 
    non-discoverable dependencies, users, groups, drivers, and others.

    Actions that are associated with objects that are specific to a single
    architecture should be tagged with a 'variant.arch' attribute specific to
    the architecture that applied to the action.  Ex:
        file path=/usr/lib/$(MACH64)/libx86onlybits.so variant.arch=i386

    Actions for editable files must include an appropriate 'preserve' attribute:
        file path=etc/gnu/a2ps.cfg preserve=true mode=0644

    license actions should be placed in the canonical manifest.

Manually generated actions
    * com.oracle.info.description is a terse description of what utilities,
      libraries and/or services the package provides.  This should be short,
      specific, concise text, identifying the technology covered by the
      associated license(s).  It should fit naturally in the sentence "This
      package may contain XXX."  For example, "XXX" might be "the tar command"
      or "bzip2 compression software."  When appropriate, this may begin with
      "portions of" or another, more specific qualifying clause.
    * com.oracle.info.tpno is the Oracle 3rd party license number.
    * info.classification is "org.opensolaris.category.2008:FOO" where FOO
      varies according to the sorts of utilities, libraries and/or services
      that the package provides.  Existing packages contain most useful
      values; check them out to find the closest match.  For a complete
      list of allowed values, refer to the Solaris system file
      /usr/share/lib/pkg/opensolaris.org.sections .
    * org.opensolaris.arc-caseid is typically "PSARC/YYYY/###" and multiple
      different values are allowed.
    * pkg.summary is a short synopsis of what the package provides.
    * org.opensolaris.consolidation is the name of the consolidation delivering
      the package.  In Userland, this is $(CONSOLIDATION) (which expands to
      "Userland" during the build).  Manifests in the Userland gate can also
      decorate this package attribute with an 'incorporate={incorporation-name}'
      decoration to specify where the package should be incorporated at the end
      of the userland build.  A special value of 'none' will cause the package
      to be unincorporated and float freely from the rest of the rest of the
      packages.  Note that unincorporated packages don't automatically get
      updated with the rest of the system when 'pkg update' is run unless the
      unincorporated package(s) are specified on the command line.

Mogrified Manifest
    The canonical manifest is combined with a set of the transforms
    in $(WS_TOP)/transforms, and a set of macros to more complete
    package manifest using pkgmogrify(1).  The transforms apply default
    attributes to the various actions in the canonical manifest(s).  More
    detail about the attributes can be found in the transform file themselves.
    The macros applied at the time of mogrification are as follows:
        $(MACH)
        $(MACH32)
        $(MACH64)
        $(PUBLISHER)
        $(CONSOLIDATION)
        $(BUILD_VERSION)
        $(SOLARIS_VERSION)
        $(OS_VERSION)
        $(IPS_COMPONENT_VERSION)
        $(COMPONENT_VERSION)
        $(COMPONENT_PROJECT_URL)
        $(COMPONENT_ARCHIVE_URL)

Dependencies Generated
    The mogrified manifest and the prototype install tree are passed through
    pkgdepend(1) to generate a set of dependencies for the package content.
    These dependencies are only those that "pkgdepend generate" can determine
    on its own.  Additional dependencies that cannot be automatically
    determined by pkgdepend(1) should be placed in the canonical manifest.
    Statically defined dependencies should be described in a canonical manifest
    in an unresolved form (ie. the form generated by "pkgdepend generate").
    Ex:
	    depend fmri=__TBD pkg.debug.depend.file=etc/passwd \
		        pkg.debug.reason=usr/bin/vipw type=require

        depend fmri=__TBD pkg.debug.depend.file=sh \
                pkg.debug.depend.path=usr/bin \
                pkg.debug.depend.reason=usr/bin/psmandup \
                pkg.debug.depend.type=script type=require

    This will allow the next step to resolve all dependencies to their proper
    package(s).

Dependencies Resolved
    The manifest with unresolved dependencies is passed through pkgdepend(1)
    again to resolve dependencies against the package repositories.  The result
    is a manifest that is suitable for publication.  All these manifests are
    processed together in a single step, which is more efficient than resolving
    dependencies in each manifest separately.  While each manifest ends up with
    a .depend.res copy in the build directory, the umbrella dependency
    resolution target is {build-dir}/.resolved-$(MACH).

    The resolution step is also set up to use the -e flag to pkgdepend resolve,
    which limits the set of packages it looks at to resolve the dependencies it
    generated in the previous step.  This makes the resolution step a great deal
    faster, but requires that you keep a static list of these packages checked
    into the workspace, and update it when packages are added to it.  Having
    extra packages in there is safe.

    In order to create this list, build and publish your component (or at least
    through the resolution stage) without a file "resolve.deps" in the component
    directory, and run "gmake sample-resolve.deps".  If the file is empty (that
    is, no computed dependencies were found), a warning will be emitted and the
    file will be removed, as pkgdepend currently errors out in that case.

    To test, run "gmake clean" and re-publish.

    Don't forget to "hg add resolve.deps"!

    Note that there is a possibility the list of dependencies will be different
    on different architectures, so you should run this on both sparc and x86,
    and combine the two lists.  Please keep the files sorted.

Manifest Validation
    The resolved manifest(s) and prototype install tree are passed through
    a set of validations.  This includes running pkglint(1), comparing the
    manifest content to the prototype install tree, and validation of the file
    content of the prototype install tree.  Any anomalies are reported.
    Content validation is performed by extension to pkglint(1) in
    $(WS_TOP)/tools/python/userland-lint

    Note that when integrating new packages, and one or more of them depends
    on or more of the others, then this may result:
        WARNING pkglint.action005.1      obsolete dependency check skipped:
            unable to find dependency (target pkg) for (source pkg)
    This means that the target package was not found in the reference repo,
    which was the source of the pkglint cache that was created when 'gmake
    setup' was run after the workspace was created; thus the warning is
    harmless and can be ignored in this circumstance.

Publication.
    Once manifest validation has occurred, the package(s) is/are finally
    published to the workspace package repository.

Renames

    Renames in IPS are tricky.  We will use a case study to illustrate how
    this needs to work.

    All of the library/python-2/FOO modules that we had in Userland at the
    time were renamed to library/python/FOO in s12_41.  This involved:
    * changing the FMRI to drop the "-2"
    * adding an optional dependency on the old name at the version and build
      in which the rename occurred; this forces the rename
      * depend type=optional fmri=library/python-2/FOO-$(PYV)@VERSION,BUILD
      where FOO is the component name (e.g., "alembic", "amqp", etc.),
      "$(PYV)" is that literal string, VERSION was the expanded value of
      COMPONENT_VERSION from each component's Makefile (e.g., "0.6.0"
      for alembic, "1.0.12" for amqp, etc.), and BUILD was set to
      "5.12-5.12.0.0.0.41.0".  Note that BUILD needs to be set to
      the value of the build you are integrating into.
    * one or more new manifests (typically one for the versionless package,
      plus one for each versioned instance of the package) with actions:
      * set name=pkg.fmri value=pkg:/library/python-2/FOO@VERSION,BUILD
      * set name=pkg.renamed value=true
      * set name=org.opensolaris.consolidation value=$(CONSOLIDATION)
      * depend fmri=library/python/FOO type=require
      where FOO, VERSION and BUILD are all as above.

    So far, not too bad.  This gets slightly more complicated when back-
    porting in that BUILD needs to be set to the back-port build (e.g.,
    "5.11-0.175.3.0.0.8.0", as was the case for tkinter-27) rather than
    the S12 build.

    If the component is at the same version as when the rename was done, then
    that's it.  But if the component has since been upgraded, then care must
    be taken to set VERSION in both places above to the value that it was in
    s12_41 when the rename was originally done.  In particular, the latest
    version of a package name in an earlier release branch must not be greater
    than the latest version of that same package name in the newer release
    branch.  Otherwise the audits from Release Engineering will complain and
    our gatekeeper will make you do a follow-up push to fix this.

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